June 19, 2012Comments Off on NY Assembly will pass Cuomo’s teacher eval bill

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a last-minute push Tuesday for passage of legislation that would limit disclosure of teacher evaluations only to parents, not the public. The Assembly’s Democratic majority plans to pass the bill, while the Senate’s Republican majority started ...

February 27, 2012Comments Off on NY Gov. Cuomo says he’s flexible, like Gumby

Call him Gov. Gumby. That’s how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo describes his “flexibility” as a governor. Gumby is the innocent character in a 1960s children’s show who was made of clay and posed for stop-action animation. The characterization is ...

February 17, 2012Comments Off on Teacher eval movement goes to districts

After a landmark deal was struck in Albany to create a guide for evaluating the state’s 222,000 public school teachers, the effort turns to local districts where the theory will have to be put into practice. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called ...

February 16, 2012Comments Off on NY, union agree on teacher evaluation plan

A deal has been struck on a new teacher evaluation system that should ensure New York gets $1 billion in threatened federal education money, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. The agreement between the state and its largest teachers union creates ...

February 16, 2012Comments Off on NY voters trust Cuomo more than teachers’ union

A new poll finds that New York state voters trust Gov. Andrew Cuomo to safeguard education more than they trust the teachers’ union. The Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday finds that 50 percent of voters trust Cuomo more “to protect ...

Even as teachers expressed concern over Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to tie school district funding to new teacher evaluation methods, the State University of New York system greeted the decision to hold the line on its funding with relief. Cuomo ...

January 18, 2012Comments Off on Now NY’s Legislature gets Cuomo’s budget

With a little cheerleading, a little cajoling and a little threatening, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has turned his 2012-13 budget into a rallying cry for reform of the status quo in Albany, demonizing some of its most powerful public labor unions. ...

March 18, 2011Comments Off on Teachers in Comsewogue agree to givebacks

More than 300 teachers at a Long Island school district have agreed to pay givebacks of $4,500 each next year to save their jobs. Newsday reports that the Comsewogue school district is the latest of more than a dozen Long ...